Collected Works of Samuel Smiles

Book excerpt: This Collected Works of Samuel Smiles book is not really ordinary book. The benefit you get by reading this book is actually information inside this reserveincredible fresh, you will get information which is getting deeper an individual read a lot ofinformation you will get. "Heaven helps those who help themselves" is a well-tried maxim, embodying in a small compass the results of vast human experience. Samuel Smiles was a Scottish author and government reformer. His masterpiece, Self-Help, promoted thrift and claimed that poverty was caused largely by irresponsible habits, while also attacking materialism and laissez-faire government. But he concluded that more progress would come from new attitudes than from new laws. Self-Help has been called "the bible of mid-Victorian liberalism", and it raised Smiles to celebrity status almost overnight.